- Birth nameHortência de Fátima Marcari
- Nickname
- Rainha Hortência
- Height5′ 8½″ (1.74 m)
- Hortência Marcari was born on September 23, 1959 is a former Brazilian basketball player. Considered one of the greatest female athletes in her sport and as the best FIBA world cup player of all time in 2018, entered the United States Women's Basketball Hall of Fame in 2002, and the Basketball Hall of Fame in 2005. She started playing for the Brazilian basketball team at the age of 16 and, after the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta, Hortência retired permanently.
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- At the opening of the Rio de Janeiro Olympic Games, in Maracanã, tennis player Gustavo Kuerten passed the torch into the hands of Hortência, who handed it to the runner Vanderlei de Lima, who was the one who lit the Olympic pyre.
- Played five FIBA world championships and two Olympic games.
- Hortência is the highest scorer in the history of the Brazilian Women's Basketball Team, with 3,160 points, scored in 127 official matches, an average of 24.9 points per match.
- Her son João Victor Marcari Oliva, the result of his marriage to businessman José Victor Oliva, is a rider, having competed in equestrian at the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro in 2016.
- Won silver medal at the 1996 Olympic Games in Atlanta.
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